People are evil, and it is just getting worse. This happened today at the lake........

But to witness it, at least for me is.

I mean I know that things get stolen all the time, but dang, up until recently this kind of thing in this region was mostly city orientated and the country folk enjoying the outdoors were left alone for the most part.

No more, it seems.

If your city has a population of over 50k...this shit is happening daily in the open.

Could be worse, at least their not cutting out your organs.

I love camping.....have not been for about 3 years now.

I recall one public camp place I stayed....people were shooting guns all night and partying.

I didn't sleep a wink that night. I was on guard the whole time.

No, but the feeling of violation has to be just like if you had been raped.

That is the only way I can describe it.

I don't live in the city, thank God, but I see what you are saying.

God has blessed you. Never move to a city. Stay away from them.

Dash cams. I installed a 2 channel, front and rear cam in 2019.

Some have cloud apps that will notify your phone if motion or impacts are detected.

One can get creative on where to place the cams as well.

Thieves are like liquid, they take the path of least resistance. Sometimes, a simple cam that's visible is a deterrent.

I had a tarded woman talking on her phone pull out in front of me awhile back. I had to swerve fast, honked my horn, she flips me off. I pulled up next to her at the stop light maybe 1/4 mile down the road, said, flip me off again, and I'll post you on youtube and pointed to the cam. She about shit her pants, LOL. The look on her face was priceless.

thing is

whoever buys the converters has to be fairly sophisticated, they aren't methheads or street gangs

to pull the palladium and platinum out of them you'd need a pretty sophisticated set up.

and then who buys platinum and palladium in that form anyways?? that's shady as fuck.

a lot of these street level scams are really being serviced by large powerful operations

thing is

whoever buys the converters has to be fairly sophisticated, they aren't methheads or street gangs

to pull the palladium and platinum out of them you'd need a pretty sophisticated set up.

and then who buys platinum and palladium in that form anyways?? that's shady as fuck.

a lot of these street level scams are really being serviced by large powerful operations

That deserved to be said twice, so it can stay.

Super shady to sell used catalytic converters. Selling scrap is totally different from what it was years ago. You have to surrender your drivers license before unloading your metal, they take your picture, and take a photograph of your vehicle. Then they have to contact the State to see if your vehicle or you have been involved in a theft before. You can't just show up at a yard, drive up on a scale, yell to the scale operator what your load is, drive to where you dump it off, then re-weigh, then drive to the scale operator and get a check. Now with Covid-19, everyone at the yard wears a mask, and we all have to practice social distancing.

Some people are broke and desperate

The only way I know where metal can be gotten rid of is by putting it inside a car body or stuffing it in a refrigerator. This practice will end of hiding other scrap in your load when they start inspecting your load to see exactly what is in it.

The contents of a catalytic converter can be knocked out, and mixed with chemicals to put all the precious metals in solution, then add another chemical to get it to drop out. Getting rid of it I don't have a clue. Maybe the laws are lax where precious metals are sold, as compared to iron and aluminum or copper and brass. But at every scrap yard, you must surrender your drivers license and they have to check with the State to see if you've been caught before selling stolen scrap.

Maybe we can put glue boards or something under our vehicles, so once they get under the vehicle they can't get out, and have to tell someone they are underneath or they get dragged under the vehicle.

Or end up in some basement getting pipe 24-7.

precious metals on the rise!

I can't find a link to verify, but I was told that 2 men were caught in the act and arrested for this soon after It was reported to social media forums and local news watch sites.

If I do find a link and have time, I will post it up.

Happened to my past girlfriend in Marysville outside
of Seattle. We went to a county fair and when we left,
we noticed her truck was super noisy.

They cut it out in a few minutes with a saw or torch.

That was in 2010.
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That sucks OP.

I honestly thought your post was building to a joke punchline lol

Dang.... The thieves doing that probably had a truckload!

Places like that are usually packed with vehicles.

So much for locking your vehicle, when all they want is something under it.

Time to start chopping of hands when they are caught.

That's what they did in the bible to thieves.

Lucky that os all they took.
At Sandy Hook, NJ people fish off the beach.
Thieves taking everything not nailed down off of cars and trucks.
Heard some night fisherman were actually robbed on the shore.

Our commercial van got hit recently, didn’t leave any connecting pipe. Took it all.

Also noticed our business F150 had two long vertical scratches on it. One on the tailgate, the other on the drivers door. Like it was marked specifically where to cut underneath.

Then there was the Mexican ganglike writing on the hood in the dust. Something ending in ‘famili’

They were obviously planning to come back and hit it but we stored it.

They went after her truck because of the ground clearance.

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Maybe the buyers should stop buying them.

Many years ago, I went camping with a bunch of my friends. It was a public place too. We took a campsite that was away from everyone. We got kinda drunk and made a huge box wood style bon fire. Flames were shooting up around 10'-12' high. We had the bright idea to throw a can of WD40 into the fire. There was a huge explosion, shrapnel was flying everywhere, and a ball of combustible flame rose up over the tree tops. It looked like a nuclear explosion. Needless to say, we got thrown out of the camping grounds. But it was way cool...